In this context is which or what correct.
I was shown this sentence from a school assignment for someone learning English as a second language, I personally consider the correct word would be which but apparently the correct answer is what. Can someone please clear this up for us?
"The path then split from the original route of the wall, but I was able to rejoin it at the site of [which / what] was once Donuimum Gate, one of the original main gates."
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"What" is right. "What was once Donuimum Gate" is the thing that is now unrecognizable as what it once was, Domuimum Gate. That is probably not the best way to put what the writer meant.
- "What" is right.
- "What was once Donuimum Gate" is the thing that is now unrecognizable as what it once was, Domuimum Gate.
- That is probably not the best way to put what the writer meant.
- " "The site of which" would require an antecedent for "which", but there is none, and that is the least of its defects.
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"What" is right. "What was once Donuimum Gate" is the thing that is now unrecognizable as what it once was, Domuimum Gate. That is probably not the best way to put what the writer meant. It supposes that there is something at the site that was the gate before, but I suspect that there is no trace there, and it would have been better expressed as "I was able to rejoin it at the former site of D
0anonymous the correct word would be which but apparently the correct answer is what.
The correct pronoun is "what."
"What" introduces a noun (content) clause.
"Which" introduces a relative clause.
but I was able to rejoin it at the site of [which / what] was once Donuimum Gate, one of the original main gates."
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